Parents claim doll is preaching Islamic message

CONCERNED parents have accused a Fisher Price doll of preaching pro-Islamic messages to toddlers.

The Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo dolls, available in the Britain and Ireland, have been reported as saying: “Islam is the light”.

The news website www.kjrh.com quoted customers as saying that they have heard the doll mumble “Satan is King” and “Islam is the Light”.

The talking doll initially caused controversy in the US and some retailers even removed the product from shelves, Fox News reported.

But Mattel, the parent company of Fisher Price, dismissed the controversy as a phenomenon caused by the doll’s cheap in-built speakers.

A spokesman said: “The Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo dolls feature realistic baby sounds including cooing, giggling, and baby babble with no real sentence structure.

“The only scripted word the doll says is ‘mama’. There is a sound that may resemble something close to the word, ‘right’, or ‘light’.

“Because the original soundtrack is compressed into a file that can be played through an inexpensive toy speaker, actual sounds may be imprecise or distorted.”

It would “not make sense” for a large toy company to produce a doll with a religious message, said Azeem Khan of the Islamic Circle of North America.

“Whenever Islam comes up in the public sphere, it is a controversy,” he said.